Trees or shrubs. Flowers small, solitary in the axils or in few-flowered axillary inflorescences; pedicels articulate a little above the base, bearing a few small, distichous bracts below and 1 above the articulation. Sepals 3, connate at the base, imbricate in bud, persistent. Petals 6, thin, black when dried, all rather alike, orbicular, ovate or oblong, imbricate. Receptacle hemispheric. Stamens 6-20, lanceolate-oblong, the connective elongated above the anther into a triangular to lanceolate appendage. Carpels rather few, (1-)4-13; ovaries cylindric-ovoid; stigma sessile, capitate or shortly clavate; ovule 1, basal, erect. Monocarps free, nearly sessile or shortly stipitate, 1-seeded. Seeds without an aril.
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